Word Watching answers: November 30, 2005

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(c) The tree-kangaroo of North Queensland, Dendrolagus lumholtzii. The native name. Bangaray in the Port Jackson dialect. 1965: “The blacks concluded the Boongary never drank.”

CAUCHO

(b) Any of several varieties of rubber produced in the Amazon basin and Central America, especially from species of Castilloa. South American Spanish adaptation of the Quechua cauchu. 1921: “The caucho trees are smaller than the shiringas.”

HAWMED

(a) Of legs: bandy or curved. Derivation doubtful. It may possibly come from haum (of the collar of a horse) as resembling them in their curvature. Another suggestion is haulm, in allusion to the prominent

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A consistent feature of the early games of grandmaster Mark Taimanov, who
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